Food shopping & groceries

🛒 Useful Forum threads from this board: * Driving to different supermarkets to save? * The Great ‘shrinking food and other items’ Hunt * Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping * Comparing the rising cost of milk Spotted any other interesting food shopping/groceries threads? Let me know! 🍽 Official…

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Obviously mileage will vary for different people with different circumstances but having recently become single again, I have been trying to tighten my belt. Slightly weirdly, having tried the whole Aldi/Lidl thing, I found the best way of getting my shopping bills down was going to Waitrose! A few reasons: -Most…

Welcome to The Foodbank Donation Thread How can we maximise contributions to foodbanks, while keeping it MoneySaving? ------------------------- A note: this post does not seek to pressure people into donating to food banks. Not everyone is in the position to be able to donate alongside providing for their own family,…

1 year ago I was almost always buying branded food, mcVities, Walkers, McCain's, Heinz etc basically everything was branded, even bread. Now I've switched out almost every branded item for a non branded variant and my monthly food spend has dropped from £400 to £150. Now I only ever buy the Tesco branded option, or…

Lidl advertising potatoes / carrots / shallots / swede / green beans & spring onions at 19p from 26 March. No doubt all will be doing similar.

The Iceland/Food Warehouse bonus card offer is back for christmas. Load £100 of new savings onto your Bonus Club account in one or more transactions by 5th November and you receive the usual £5 bonus (£1 FREE for every £20), and a £15 bonus. That's a total of £20. The standard £1 bonuses will be loaded onto your account…

It seems like I only have to blink and the price of Olive Oil has gone up again. So I thought I'd list all the Olive Oil Offers that I could find. Carapelli Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml was £9 now 8.50 to 15/04/24 Sainsbury's Filippo Berio Il Rustico Unfiltered Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1L was 13.80 now 11.99 to…

Recently retired, I walk 30 minutes to Lidl 4 or 5 times a week to pick up a handful of groceries. I have the time and it's good exercise. I now realise is that it also saves me money because my attitude has changed. When I shopped weekly, I would notice things that weren't on my list and, if I thought that I might want to…

Fage Total Greek strained yogurt was the real made in Greece deal. Other strained yogurts had to be called Greek-style yogurt. This week, I noticed that the Fage Total yogurt I would buy (the full fat one) had been renamed on some supermarket websites, as 'natural Greek recipe strained yogurt'. Ichecked out the product…

I'm a great fan of pickled onions and used to make my own. Unfortunately illness has meant that I haven't been able to make any for a few years now and I'm reliant on the commercially-available ones. Can anyone recommend from personal experience any really good ones... by which I mean crunchy and sweet? I seem to find…

Christmas may still be two months away, but it's the time of year when the festive meal deals start to appear on the shelves. What have you spotted? Which shop has the best-value or tastiest offering this year? A couple of Tesco's premium range, seen in the store next to MSE Towers... Please post any limited-edition…

If you are going to go to Asda Supermarket to get the free porridge and a hot drink then beware as the majority of cafes are run by Green Street who are independent of Asda. I went to the Asda at Cribbs Causeway this morning and found this out, which I accepted - but then when I heard them advertise it on the in-store…

The Iceland Bonus Card Christmas bonus is back. Top up an iceland bonus card with a total of £100 by 3rd November. An extra £15 bonus will be added by 24th November The usual £5 bonus will be added (£1 for every £20 saved) too - always about 3 to 4 minutes after toppping up in my experience, but they say allow 24 hours.…

Britons who bank with Nationwide Building Society will now get 5 per cent cashback on their supermarket shopping. From today until the end of April, the mutual will pay cashback on both online and in-store spending when using one of its debit cards at both large and small supermarkets. The cashback is capped at £10 per…

This is the new Lidl and Aldi buying thread. Please report any good/bad deals, good/bad offers and good/bad products. The old thread can be found here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5960153/good-and-bad-buying-at-lidl-and-aldi-please-dont-expire#latest

Southern Co-op, the regional co-operative society that operates 300 or so stores in the South of England, have made losses for the past three years and have now run out of lending capacity to continue to make those losses. Their hastily propsed "merger" with Co-op Group is to prevent insolvency, and they are not hiding the…

🚨 Sainsbury’s shoppers - CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS TODAY 🚨 I placed an online grocery order with Sainsbury's yesterday with an estimated total of £92.93. After substitutions and one missing item, my bill should have been around the same but I was actually charged £102.59. After going through everything line by line, I found:…

Lidl have introduced Lidl Pay where you can add a payment card to your Lidl Plus card / app and is promoted as "Pay with just one scan". Well that is sort of correct. Open Lidl Plus app and select your Lidl Plus card which now needs auth, either biometric or PIN, then scan it at the checkout. Put goods through and select…

M&S own brand cereals spotted in store (& available on Ocado home delivery) 80p corn flakes 500g £1 rice pops 375g £1 multigrain hoops 375g £1 choco pops 375g £1 bran flakes 500g £1.10 fruit n fibre 500g £1.10 milk & chocolate hazelnut cookie pillows 375g £1.20 malted wheats 750g £1.25 honey nut cornflakes 500g £1.30…

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